How Am Does Do Art? · 5:36am Mar 20th, 2018
So, on something of a whim I bought this drawing tablet. I've always wanted to be better with art, and I have access to the full (but old) Photoshop suite, so I figured what the hell, time to learn. But, my hands have the steadiness of a meth addict sucking on a jackhammer, so I 100% need digital aid in this pursuit. I spent the last several hours playing around with it, and I've (re) learned a very important lesson:
Art is hard. Holy shit drawing is hard.
I could paint a picture with words a million times more easily than whipping up this derivative garbage. That's me trying to replicate Emerald Flight's drawing in my avatar (the non-pencil one, that is) and it is not easy, even with the picture on screen right next to me. Coloring isn't any easier.
If anybody has any good Photoshop tutorials, YouTube channels, or general advice on how to git gud (other than "practice broham") I am all ears.
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Also yes I'm still making slow progress on actual writing things.
Hey Rao! How you is?
I am a shite artist but I have two friends that are not shite artists, and from what they've told me, "practice, broham" is legitimately the best advice. Photoshop tutorials are great to learn the program, but they won't teach you how to draw. And I've had multiple failures at trying to find some "learn-to-draw-quick" resource online. They just don't exist
They both got gud the same way, though: they looked at random objects in their house (and sometimes people on public transit) and they sketched them in a little book every day until they got seriously good at it. And then they started looking up resources on how to draw specific things like the human body. But I have tried those same tutorials and I am terrible at them. Because I haven't worked the muscle up to attempt them yet.
But that's just an uninformed opinion. Good luck with your artistic pursuits!
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Just trying to copy your work is a huge pain in the ass. Getting the perspective and sizes of things right... bleh. I can't imagine pulling that out of my hat from scratch.